Precalculus
Subtitle: an investigation of functions
By: David Lippman, Melonie Rasmussen
Contributors: Rasmussen, Melonie, author
Edition: Edition 1.5
Publisher: [David Lippman and Melonie Rasmussen?]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lakewood, WA?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9781481975285
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Precalculus; Problems, exercises; Textbooks; Mathematics; Study and teaching
Other titles: Precalculus 1.5
Notes: "This is the fifth official version of Edition 1. It contains typo corrections and language clarification, but is page number and problem set number equivalent to the original Edition 1." -- Title page verso.

"This is an open textbook, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license." -- Back cover.

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Table of contents: title: Functions. Session 1.1. Functions and function notation; title: Section 1.2. Domain and range; title: Section 1.3. Rates of change and behavior of graphs; title: Section 1.4. Composition of functions; title: Section 1.5. Transformation of functions; title: Section 1.6. Inverse functions. Linear functions. Section 2.1. Linear functions; title: Section 2.2. Graphs of linear functions; title: Section 2.3. Modeling with linear functions; title: Section 2.4. Fitting linear models to data; title: Section 2.5. Absolute value functions. Polynomial and rational functions. Section 3.1. Power functions and polynomial functions; title: Section 3.2. Quadratic functions; title: Section 3.3. Graphs of polynomial functions; title: Section 3.4. Rational functions; title: Section 3.5. Inverse and radical functions. Exponential and logarithmic functions. Section 4.1. Exponential functions; title: Section 4.2. Graphs of exponential functions; title: Section 4.3. Logarithmic functions; title: Section 4.5. Graphs of logarithmic functions; title: Section 4.6. Exponential and logarithmic models; title: Section 4.7. Fitting exponentials to data. Trigonometric functions of angles. Section 5.1. Circles; title: Section 5.2. Angles; title: Section 5.3. Points on circles using sine and cosine; title: Section 5.4. The other trigonometric functions; title: Section 5.5. Right triangle trigonometry. Periodic functions. Section 6.1. Sinusoidal graphs; title: Section 6.2. Graphs on the other trig functions; title: Section 6.3. Inverse trig functions; title: Section 6.4. Solving trig equations; title: Section 6.5. Modeling with trigonometric equations. Trigonometric equations and identities.  Section 7.1. Solving trigonometric equations with identities; title: Section 7.2. Addition and subtraction of identities - Section 7.3. Double angle identities; title: Section 7.4. Modeling changing amplitude and midline. Further applications of trigonometry. Section 8.1. Non-right triangles: law of sines and cosines; title: Section 8.2. Polar coordinates; title: Section 8.3. Polar form of complex numbers; title: Section 8.4 Vectors; title: Section 8.5 Parametric equations.; title: Solutions to selected exercises. Chapter 1; title: Chapter 2; title: Chapter 3; title: Chapter 4; title: Chapter 5; title: Chapter 6; title: Chapter 7; title: Chapter 8.